Environmental Sustainability in the Palm Oil Industry;Palm Waste as Nutrient Supplement and Effects on Plant Growth Characteristics
作者单位：Environmental Technology DivisionSchool of Industrial TechnologyUniversiti Sains Malaysia Penang 11800Malaysia Environmental Technology DivisionSchool of Industrial TechnologyUniversiti Sains Malaysia Penang Institute of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentBanaras Hindu UniversityVaranasi221005India
会议名称：《2012 International Conference on Environmental,Biomedical and Biotechnology》
会议日期：1000年
学科分类：083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学]
基 金：would like to extend their gratitude to USM under the RU-PRGS [1001/PTEK9IND/844080] grant scheme for the financial support in the submission of this paper
关 键 词：Nutrient supplement Sustainability Decan ter cake Palm oil mill wastes Dosage
摘 要：The Oil palm industry has turned out to be one of the largest flourishing industries in Malaysia these *** is owing to the fact that petroleum prices have skyrocketed in the last decade which presented a good opportunity for oil palm as an alternative for *** this increase in demand,environmental management in the palm oil industry is an issue of major *** the Palm Oil processing there is a surplus of by-products as utilization rate of these byproducts is low especially for Palm Oil Mill Effluent,Empty fruit Bunch and Decanter cake (DC).This paper takes a brief look at the various uses of these wastes with emphasis on our work on decanter *** cake (unamended soil ***,10,20 and 30 % w/w DC) was used as an amendment to soil for the growth of vegetables (lady’s finger,brinjal and tomato).Effects on seed germination and seedling growth,morphological characteristics and growth pattern among the three plants were studied and results showed that10% DC amendment in all three plants had similar germination pattern (70%) whereas germination in 30%DC amendment was very low for tomato and lady’s finger and high for brinjal *** was significant difference between the shoot lengths in the control of lady’s finger as compared to the other treatments (10-30%) unlike the root lengths which showed no significant differences across the 3 *** supplement,Sustainability,Decan ter cake Palm oil mill wastes,Dosage